To:DAVID WIJNKOOP

Published:First published in 1960 inVoprosy Istorii KPSSNo. 4.

      Sent to Amsterdam.

      Printed from the original.

      Translated from the French.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1977],

      Moscow,Volume 43,

      page451b.Translated:Martin Parker and Bernard IsaacsTranscription\Markup:R. CymbalaPublic Domain:Lenin Internet Archive

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Berne, March 12, 1915

DearComrade,

Theenclosed letter is from Comrade Inessa whom we have authorised to
work on bringing the socialist women of the Left closer
together.[1]I earnestly request you to find a Dutch woman comrade who
shares your point of view and could be delegated to the conference of
socialist women from your party (if not in person, at least in writing).

Mycongratulations on Gorter’s pamphlet, which takes such a hard knock
at the opportunists and
Kautsky.[2]

Ishall be greatly obliged if you will answer me as quickly as
possible.

Withfraternal greetings,N. Lenin(Vl. Ulyanov)

Wl.Uljanow.Distelweg. 11. Berne (Suisse).

[1]Theletter was written by Inessa Armand on behalf of the foreign-based
section of the journalRabotnitsagiving notice of the convocation
of a conference of Left socialist women and inviting the Dutch
Social-Democratic Party to send its delegate.

TheInternational Conference of Socialist Womenwas held in
Berne from March 26 to 28, 1915. It was convened on the initiative of the
foreign-based organisation of the journalRabotnitsaand with the
close co-operation of Clara Zetkin, then Chairman of the International
Bureau of Socialist Women. All the preparations for the Conference were
made by Inessa Armand, Nadezhda Krupskaya and others under Lenin’s
guidance.

Materialsrelating to the Conference were published in the Supplement
toSotsial-DemokratNo. 42 for June 1, 1915.

[2]Thisrefers to the pamphlet by H. Gorter,Het Imperialisme, de
Wereldoorlog en de Social-Democratie(Imperialism, the World War and
Social-Democracy), Amsterdam.